Sula
gannets and boobies
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2026-08-05: worms_id 137055 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)
A booby is a seabird in the genus Sula, part of the family Sulidae. Boobies are closely related to the gannets (Morus), which were formerly included in Sula.W CalCOFI holds 49 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1997 and 2022, across 4 taxa under it.R
- 49
- observations
- 49
- records
- 1997–2022
- years
- 1
- datasets
- 4
- species under it
Observed in nothing keyed to it directly
Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 4 taxa · Sula leucogaster most observed, in the fold below.
Ways inExplorerdb-queryRPythonThis page as JSON
Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON
library(calcofi4r) con <- cc_get_db() # the promoted release tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "itis:174697")
import calcofi4py as cc
con = cc.cc_get_db()
con.sql("SELECT * FROM obs_bio WHERE taxon_key = 'itis:174697'").df()Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.
How big is it not on record
Not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).
Under it 4 taxa · Sula leucogaster most observed
- sp Sula leucogaster Brown Booby36
- sp Sula granti Nazca Booby8
- sp Sula dactylatra Masked Booby3
- sp Sula sula Red-Footed Booby2
Lineage 10 ranks · Animalia to Sulidae
Credits silhouette · photo · text
- Silhouette · Jon Hill · CC BY-SA 3.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Sula nebouxii · source
- Photo · National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program · Public domain · commons · source
- Text · Wikipedia, “Booby” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1366321083
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF
The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.
Cite the release, v2026.10.21
Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗